telnet

[Chris Wong]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rodney Davis wrote:

> Mandrake is running at Medium security.

I know nothing about Mandrake. Maybe somebody who does...

> I looked through /usr/sbin and found neither telnetd or in.telnetd.
> And a 'whereis' command finds neither.  This might be the problem.
> But, the in.wuftpd file is there and I get the same result when I try
> and ftp into the server.

Same result meaning? CONnection refused? It could be the medium security
level talking. I don't know enough to judge either way.

> From: Chris Wong [mailto:wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:29 PM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] RE: telnet
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rodney Davis wrote:
>
> > >Does /var/log/messages say anything after restarting inetd?
> >
> > No.  It just outputs that shutdown and startup succeeded.
>
> Okay.
>
> > >Type /sbin/ipchains -L input
> > >and post the output.
> >
> > I did the /sbin/ipchains -L input and got:
> >
> > Chain input (policy ACCEPT)
> >
> > What do you mean "post the output"?
>
> That would be it.
>
> Okay... determine if /usr/sbin/in.telnetd or /usr/sbin/telnetd exists and
> is executable.
>
> But messages should say something if it wasn't.
>
> What security level is this Mandrake running at?
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Wong [mailto:wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:50 PM
> > > To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> > > Subject: [luau] RE: telnet
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rodney Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > > No, I cannot telnet localhost.  It gives the same error.
> > > > Yes, /etc/hosts.deny is empty and /etc/hosts.allow
> > > > is set to ALL : ALL : allow
> > > >
> > > > There should be no firewall scripts but I don't really know
> > > > where to look for this.
> > >
> > > Check your /var/log/messages. If there's no error message then it's
> > > firewall. Check that first. Could be a deleted entry in /etc/services or
> > > something.
> > >
> > > and ALL : ALL is bad.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: calzonie at hawaii.rr.com [mailto:calzonie at hawaii.rr.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:51 PM
> > > > To: Rodney Davis; calzonie at hawaii.rr.com
> > > > Subject: RE: [luau] telnet
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can you telnet to the localhost though?
> > > >
> > > > Your /etc/allow.deny is empty?
> > > >
> > > > Any firewall scripts?
> > > >
> > > > >It is listening on 23 and I can telnet out to other servers.
> > > > >
> > > > >rodney
> > > > >
> > > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > > >From: calzonie at hawaii.rr.com [mailto:calzonie at hawaii.rr.com]
> > > > >Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:27 PM
> > > > >To: Rodney Davis
> > > > >Subject: Re: [luau] telnet
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >The new distros run telnet from /etc/xinet.d/telnet but it's on by
> > > default.
> > > >
> > > > >Do a "netstat -na |grep LIS |grep 23" see if you are listening to
> port
> > 23
> > > > >first.
> > > > > If you are can you telnet localhost?
> > > > >
> > > > >>I can't get telnet to work correctly.  When I try connecting from a
> > > remote
> > > >
> > > > >{SNIP}
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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